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Adding gitbash to windows cmd to run make files

Time:09-21

i have a windows machine that i installed git on it . on install i checked the add the gitbash to environment but after install when i run a smiple command like ls in my windows cmd i get the error

'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

now this is my env variables on my windows

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the second one was added by git automatically on install but I add the first one by searching on stack overflow but none of them seems to work .

Extra Details :

in case you want to know what trouble it cause me . i am running some make commands that works properly on my gitbash but on my goland terminal it gives this error

./scripts/fmt.sh provider
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, sh C:\Users\farsh\go\src\gojeh\scripts\fmt.sh provider, ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
make: *** [Makefile:16: run] Error 2

CodePudding user response:

TL;DR

Git for Windows deliberately only puts the bare minimum on your Windows PATH

Details

If you look at the git\bin directory, you'll see that only git, bash and sh are there. Then there's a git\usr\bin directory will the standard *nix-style utilities you're expecting, including ls, although not including make on my machine. Those are not added to your Windows path, because many of them would conflict with the standard Windows utilities, and shadowing them could have unpredictable effects on other stuff running in Windows.

So you'll find the extra stuff is only visible when you're running inside Git Bash itself, where they're expected to work the *nix way.

If you need make for your system, you should probably install a version intended to be used on Windows.

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